SF Tidbits for 10/13/08

• Ridley Scott may direct an adaptation of Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War. I find this interesting as Scott has said that sci-fi is dead. Twice. Everything has already been done, he says. Everything, apparently, except make more money from it.
• Slice of SciFi talks about whether science fiction movies inspire people.
• Books Under the Bridge asks What makes a good children’s story?
• Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
  • @Feedbooks: “Islands in the Air” by Lowell Howard Morrow (1929).
  • The latest issue of DargonZine features fiction by Rena Deutsch, Liam Donahue, Pam Atchley and Mark Murray.
  • @Manybooks:
    • “John Jones’ Dollar” by Harry Stephen Keeler (1956).
    • “The Sword and the Atopen” by Taylor H. Greenfield (1956).
    • “Omega, the Man” by Lowell Howard Morrow (1933).
  • Audio Fiction:
    • @Clonepod: “Outside Chance” by Matthew Johnson, read by Leslie Ann Moore.
    • @Beam Me Up: Part three of “Uxo Bomb Dog” by Elliot Fintushel , read by Paul Cole
    • @Escape Pod: “Arties Aren’t Stupid” by Jeremiah Tolbert, read by Philippa Ballantine.
    • @LibriVox:
      • A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, read by Mark Nelson.
      • At The Earth’s Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs, read by many readers.
      • A House-Boat on the Styx by John Kendrick Bangs, read by many readers.
      • Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott, read by Ruth Golding.
• More steampunk Star Wars from Björn Hurri:Steampunk Leia
• The Galaxy Express lists 7 Reasons Men Should Read Science Fiction Romance.
• Suvudu lists 10 SF and Fantasy Writers Who Should Be Nobel Prize Winners.

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1. SF Tidbits for 9/7/08
2. SF Tidbits for 9/19/08
3. Edgar Rice Burroughs
4. The 34 Writers on Gutenberg’s Science Fiction Bookshelf
5. SF Tidbits for 6/8/08

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